Word: wolfed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cent of the broadcasters' commercial business. ASCAP, they said, was charging unfair flat rates. It was paying eighty per cent of the writers' incomes to twenty per cent of the writers. It was a union. It was a monopoly. It was a new kind of musical big bad wolf. But hadn't the broadcasters' revenue doubled? Hadn't they sunk a juicy $4,000,000 into BMI? Couldn't BMI become a bigger union and a badder monopoly...
...call to action, and native bands began to harass the Italian rear. The Negus meant business. Said he: "When I enter Addis Ababa, I shall lead my victorious troops into the Capital, mounted on a white horse, just as Badoglio did. I will tear down the figure of the wolf erected by the Italians in Addis Ababa Square and in its place will reinstate the white marble statue of the Lion of Judah." In London, his roly-poly, good-natured Empress Waizeru Menen collected her daughters, packed her crown jewels for the big entry, climbed aboard a crowded troop train...
...presented. The essence of the investigation of a murder is to acquire all of the facts that might conceivably be of value. The police have long since learned that the most important evidence is often acquired only with the aid of various highly specialized observes and that the lone wolf type of investigator, such as depicted in most detective stories, would rarely have a case that would satisfy the requirements of an intelligent prospecting attorney...
...Army examinations for a lark, finished second out of 700 and wound up as a subaltern in the 13th Hussars in India. An expert at reconnaissance, he served with the 13th in the Afghan War in 1881. On service in Zululand he won the name of Impeesa (The Wolf that Never Sleeps) from the awed natives, moved on to Ashanti and Matabeleland. By the time of the Boer War he was a colonel in command of Mafeking, where he held off the Boers with a heroic 217-day defense. In 1907, aged 50, big-game hunter, author of Aids...
Walt Disney has never considered himself an artist. Nevertheless, ever since Disney invented a good mouse opera, the high-brow art world has beaten a path to his door. Manhattan's Metropolitan and Modern Art Museums have hung stills of the Big Bad Wolf and of Snow White's vultures...